Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.

Silence is the mother of truth.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.

There is no education like adversity.